Stop Vista & Win7 Theme take over

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I would like to know how I can stop Vista and Win7 from forcing their themes onto my WinForms Apps? I'm talking about the border and the title bar. Our app has its own color setup, but Vista and Win7 seems to not care and now our app has the Vista/Win7 borders and title bar whether we want it or not.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

Posted 28-Sep-10 23:16pm

NeCroFire

Updated 1-Oct-10 11:28am

Toli Cuturicu

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Henry Minute · Answer 1 · 2010-09-29T02:39:00

Solution 1

You could try somethin like the techniques described in Winforms SkinFramework[^] and the links given there.

I have no definite knowledge that they will defeat Vista/Weven theming but strongly suggest that they will.

Posted 29-Sep-10 2:39am

Henry Minute

Toli Cuturicu · Answer 2 · 2010-10-01T11:31:00

Solution 2

Form1.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None;

Then, draw the borders and caption yourself, according to your application own style.

Posted 1-Oct-10 11:31am

Toli Cuturicu